The real question here is whether the decision from the American Needle case applies in this situation.

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The union breathed a heavy sigh of relief in May when the American Needle case did not award a sweeping antitrust exemption for the league, a decision that would have wiped out the decertification option.

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But we may be able to move the needle on this challenge by focusing on the business case for advanced energy and accelerating business-to-business connections.

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Amai Gold, a nurse who was left permanently disabled after a patient stabbed her with a needle, told the programme how she had her case dropped after a two-and-a-half-year struggle to get it to court.

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It reports a case of arterial hemorrhage caused by an acupuncture needle.

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The NFL won the case at the trial and appellate levels, but American Needle appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.

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It dates back to 2004, when American Needle, an Illinois-based hat maker, brought an antitrust case against NFL, claiming the league was using its monopoly power to muscle it out of its fair share of revenue for caps it made bearing NFL logos.

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